We heard not one, but two high-ranking Washington officials admit that there were no Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq and that they were mistaken by thinking and saying otherwise. First, Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made this admission before some kind of Commission somewhere, but later on issued a statement trying to say that was not what he really meant, that he actually was saying this, etc. Then, President Bush himself made the admission about two days ago that there were none of these weapons in Iraq and that he was mistaken thinking otherwise. He did not issue a retraction afterwards either like Rumsfeld did, simply because Rumsfeld jumped the gun by saying what he did a day earlier, he was not supposed to be the one making the admission here, that was supposed to be The President's thing to do, and he did, making it official, America now says that there are not now, nor were there any Weapons Of Mass destruction in Iraq anytime lately. On the surface, that would make it look as if the reason that Bush said that America had to go into Iraq was a bunch of bullshit and this admission would be political suicide in an election year, but the spin masters were right on this fucker, after all, they had a long time to prepare for this one. Neither Bush or Rumsfeld came out and said that things were flat-out wrong about Iraq. What they did was to blame "faulty intelligence" for the whole thing. They made it seem as if the CIA and FBI and the other Pigs that were working on this issue made mistakes in their analysis of things, that they sincerely believed that Iraq did indeed have these weapons and told the White House what they truly believed. This makes these agencies look like good soldiers, albeit a little disorganized, as they dutifully reported what they found to their superiors, even thought that was not exactly factual. No one is being singled out or blamed here for anything, no heads are rolling over CIA way or anything like that. Bush is saying that he got bad intelligence about the whole thing, and since he was not right there himself to make that judgement, he had to go with what he had. After all, he is The President, he does not have time to fly around the world personally overseeing every intelligence project that America is involved in, that would take up all his time, and he would not have any left over to do any of his other duties. Therefore, he has underlings that are supposed to take care of that shit, they are the overseers of all of this, not him, and these underlings did not perform their job to perfection this time, not out of incompetence, but out of lack of resources to do it perfectly. That's why Bush increased the budgets for all these Intelligence agencies, so they would not do that in the future. This is what The White House is saying about it all, and they temper that with reminders of what a tyrant Saddam was, and how he hated America, and how the world is a better place now that he has been removed, and so on. They are admitting that they were mistaken about Iraq back in 2002-2003, but they still say that what they did was righteous and a good thing for mankind.
Well, Senator Kerry and his camp have jumped all over this motherfucker and are trying to make lots of hay out of it before Election Day. They are saying that this shows that Bush was mistaken in what he did, and that now he has America involved in a scene that is costing it immense dollars and the lives of its citizens as well, and isn't that terrible? Bush's opponents are saying that this is indeed incompetence on the part of the CIA and the FBI and all the other Pigs that worked on this thing, because they should have been able to know this, seeing as how it was an obvious thing. These people are pointing to the fact that America has the largest and most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus in the history of mankind. Washington can know what you ate for lunch today or how many times you took a piss today if they want to, so how could they have missed this one? These sort of questions have now taken over the Presidential campaign, they were asked last night during the second presidential debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry, in fact, some dork with notecards went to the microphone and asked president Bush about that very issue, doesn't this admission of his mean that there was no reason to go to war with Iraq, etc. Kerry and his people are trying to play this issue up big time, as they say that it points to bad leadership from President Bush, not bad intelligence from the CIA, because they claim that Bush believed this information that he knew was wrong just because it was what he wanted to believe about it for many reasons. They say that this is failure of government at the highest levels, exactly the same kind of shit that helped lead to the tragic events of September 11th 2001 and so forth. Kerry and the Democrats are going to try to use this admission and the impetus for getting Bush out of the White House next January by saying that it shows that Bush is not a fit leader, that he does things based on whims and fancy and not on conclusive facts, and look at what that has led us to these last four years, and God only knows what it could lead us to in the next four if Bush is given that chance. The Democrats are not above using fear to try and get the people to do what they want, not at all, they are as good at it as anyone. They want to try and use this admission to scare everyone into seeing Bush as a demagogue, some power-mad fucker that will just go and commit American money and lives to any cause that he gets in his head, and that another term for him will mean that it will soon become too late for mankind, and so forth. Fear is also playing a major role in this Presidential campaign, as it has in American society ever since September 11th, 2001. The War In Iraq has stirred major fears of every kind among the American populace, and this admission by Washington that they were mistaken about things at the beginning has seemed to launch this issue into overdrive big time. Kerry wants to make it go his way, and Bush wants it to go his way, and they will be battling it out over this for the next 24 days. But what does this admission really mean when you take it out of a political context? Is it really as sinister as everyone is making it all out to be? What does this admission mean in reality?
In reality, this admission does not mean a fuckin' thing at all, if it did, Washington would never have made it, especially The President himself. The reason that it all does not mean shit is because no matter what Washington says now about why they started this thing, it is way to late for anyone to do anything about it at all. Saddam is sitting in some American jail at a military base in Iraq, and he is not about to go back to his palaces and his women and money and life of luxury gained as a tyrannical despot, those days are over for good. He is busted, and his henchmen are either also busted, or killed, like his two idiot sons were, and that shit is not about to become undone. Washington can say "oops we made a mistake" all they want , but there is no stopping what they initiated last year. So, making some kind of issue out of what Washington said about this is an exercise in pointlessness, something that will distract people and take attention away from the other issues facing America today, and that is exactly what both candidates want. It is pretty easy for them to bicker and banter back and forth about this admission and what it all means, while the war rages on over in Iraq. No one cares about why America came to Iraq anymore, all they care about now is what they are doing there and what their opposition is doing to them now. It is useless to make a deal out of this thing because no mater what the reason, whether it was correct or not, it has happened, and nothing is stopping it now. Whether or not Bush really believed that Saddam had that shit or was duped into believing it or was just saying that to cover up his real motivations, he went into Iraq back in March 2003 and started this war. The issue of whether he was a mistaken fool or a cold, calculating madman are irrelevant here. The Money Train was started up and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. All this controversy and talk about Bush's admission serves no purpose except to be a smokescreen for the candidates to hide behind so that no one really sees that they are together on this thing, not rivals, but partners. This is an issue that is easy for the candidates to take a strong position on, and claim that they are standing on their beliefs and so forth, and have each candidate say the opposite thing about it all and make it seem as if they are two different choices, when they are in reality nothing more than two heads of the same beast. Since the American media has such a fascination with this issue, they will have no problem keeping it front and center for these next 24 days, making it what everyone's talking about. This issue can also be spun in so many ways that it can be kept from becoming a campaign-destroying issue, because there are so many ways of telling this story. So much of it relies on sneaky secret spy shit that can never be proven that the truth is impossible to discern and no real answers can ever be given. Since we only have 24 days before the election, no one will have the time to try and figure out what exactly happened here, the real story of it won't come out for many years, until everyone involved is comfortably retired in anonymity and that War is over and the story is being told by Bill Kurtis on A+E or the History Channel in a documentary of some sort. That is not going to happen within the next 24 days, so everyone involved is safe for the time being. So, this admission can be batted back and forth between the candidates like a tennis ball for that period of time, and the candidates can hide behind it very nicely. In these next 24 days and beyond, the War In Iraq will still be raging, and it will cost America like a billion dollars a day, and it will also cost them an increasing number of American lives, and the people that are profiting off of it are going to get a lot richer,and the reasons that it all started are going to become increasingly irrelevant. No debate, no Town Hall meeting, no TV shit of any kind will alter that reality one iota. However, it is an issue that is made for TV and the debates and Town Hall meetings, and that means that it will be omnipresent during these things and in the media until Election Day, and that is more than cool with everyone involved, if they did not want things that way, then there would never have been an admission in the first place, at least not until Bill Kurtis made that documentary. Washington has been adept at keeping secrets in this war, and they did not keep this one because it was better for them not to. That's why all the hype and hoopla surrounding this admission is precisely that and nothing else. It was a fact that everyone already knew about and it was just a matter of time before it had to be made anyway, and The Establishment felt that now was the optimum time for it to be made, and lo and behold, it was. It is perhaps the biggest non-issue of the campaign, bigger than the question of whether or not the candidates ever got high or anything like that, but, unlike that tried and worn issue, this one is good enough to obfuscate things in the American people's minds for the next month or so, and that's all that The Establishment needs right now, they'll worry about after that in the future. This admission is not a historical moment, it is just another campaign trick, and it is ultimately as useless as every other campaign trick you'll ever see.